Development workshop, 2/13 at 3pm “Scientific Accountability and Data Production”

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A panel discussion about open science, ethical risks, and potential drawbacks for certain forms of knowledge production with Irene Bloemraad (1), Cecilia Menjivar (2), Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld (3), and Jennifer Wagman (4)/ (1) UC Berkeley Sociology, (2) UCLA Sociology, (3) UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, (4) UCLA Fielding School of Public Health

Giovanna Merli, Duke University, “The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on network dynamics and the well-being of Chinese immigrants”

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Biography: M. Giovanna Merli is Professor of Public Policy, Sociology and Global Health at Duke University where she is also the director of the Duke Population Research Institute. Her research straddles demography, social networks and health with recent work on the evaluation of innovative network-based sampling approaches to recruit samples of rare populations of immigrants. […]

Canceled CANCELLED: Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago, “Machine learning as a tool for hypothesis generation”

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Biography: Jens Ludwig is Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, Pritzker Director of the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab, co-director of the Education Lab, and co-director of the NBER’s working group on the economics of crime. He is on the editorial board of the American Economic Review and […]

Los Angeles’ Replication Games

Room 4240A, 4th Floor, Public Affairs Building, 337 Charles Young Dr., LA, CA 90095

We are looking for researchers, post-docs, and PhD students interested in a one-day replication challenge. Participants will be granted co-authorship on a meta-paper combining the reproductions and replications, and will have the opportunity to publish their work. Participants will be matched based on field, and a study from a leading social science journal will be […]

Brittany Chambers, University of California, Davis, “The Solutions are in the Community: Centering Black Women’s Voices to Advance Birth Equity”

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Biography: Dr. Brittany Chambers Butcher is a tenure track Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Ecology at the University of California, Davis. She is a community health scientist whose program of research merges critical and public health theories to partner with Black women and birthing people to better understand, operationalize and dismantle racism. Dr. […]

Nora Daniels, Associate Director, UCLA Corporate and Foundation Relations

Nora Daniels, Associate Director, UCLA Corporate and Foundation Relations will join our bagel hour at 11 am on March 13, 2024. Nora supports faculty across the college by identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding private foundation prospects for funding their research, programs, and initiatives. This support includes (but is not limited to): proposal development and internal approvals […]

Conrad Miller, University of California, Berkeley, “Class Disparities and Discrimination in Traffic Stops and Searches”

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Biography: Conrad Miller is an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the Haas School of Business and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a labor economist who studies inequality between social groups. His research pursues three broad research questions: (1) what role do firms play in […]

F31 Predoctoral NIH Funding Panel

Join us on Thursday, March 14 from noon- 1 pm Please RSVP and submit questions for the panelist beforehand using this form. Location: UCLA CCPR seminar room (4240A Public Affairs)  The panel will kick off with a brief introduction, setting the stage for a discussion about NIH funding opportunities focused specifically on predoctoral F31 grants. Attendees will […]

Rebecca Dizon-Ross, University of Chicago, “Mechanism Design for Personalized Policy: A Field Experiment Incentivizing Exercise”

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Biography: Rebecca Dizon-Ross is a development economist and applied microeconomist with an interest in human capital. Much of her current work is on the demand side, aiming to understand the determinants of households’ investments in health and education and to evaluate interventions to increase investment. Rebecca is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago […]

The Digital Migrant Health Record: DR. Maria Elena Ramos Tovar

YRL, Room 23167

Electronic patient records (EPRs) have been shown to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare delivery. While developed countries are ahead in this transition, with nearly all hospital settings relying on EPRs, developing countries are still lagging. Without EPRs, physicians struggle to have a clear medical history of patients; consequently, healthcare quality and efficiency […]

Andrew Penner, University of California, Irvine, “The Academic and Socioemotional Effects of Advanced Mathematics Coursetaking”

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Biography Andrew Penner is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Penner's research examines how society creates categories and sorts people into them, and focuses on the consequences of these categorization processes for inequality. At UCI, Penner serves as […]

Jeffrey Weaver, University of Southern California

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Biography: Jeff Weaver is an Assistant Professor in the department of economics at USC. He is an applied microeconomist working on a range of topics in development economics, political economy, and labor economics. His past work has examined topics such as public service delivery in India, the evolution of cultural institutions, and crime and low wage labor markets in […]

Christopher Walters, University of California, Berkeley (STC Workshop), Title: Empirical Bayes and large-scale inference.

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Biography: Christopher Walters is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Walters joined the faculty at Berkeley after completing his PhD in economics at MIT in 2013. He is also a Research Associate in the NBER programs on education and labor studies, an IZA Research […]

All-UC Demography Conference on May 16-17, 2024.

The California Center for Population Research (CCPR) will host The All-UC Demography Conference on May 16-17, 2024. Let us know if you’ll be attending! Click here to register This event is open to all University of California faculty and graduate students as well as all researchers affiliated with UC population and poverty centers: The Berkeley Population […]

Peter Hull, Brown University, “Formula Instruments” (STC Workshop)

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Biography: Peter Hull is a Professor of Economics at Brown University, a Faculty Research Fellow in the NBER Labor Studies, Education, and Health Care programs in Labor Studies, and the econometrics editor at the Review of Economics and Statistics. His research spans a variety of topics in applied econometrics, education, health care, discrimination, and criminal […]

Parag Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Biography: Parag A. Pathak is the Class of 1922 Professor of Economics at MIT, found­ing co-director of the NBER Working Group on Market Design, and founder of MIT's Blueprint Labs.  His research is on education and market design.  He is currently a co-editor of Econometrica and the recipient of the 2018 John Bates Clark Medal. […]